We know Alex from his brilliant filmscores, but he makes albums under his own name too. I missed this duet, an update of an older song, from Beaupain's Pourqoui battait mon coeur-cd when it came out in April. But now it's released as a single, with a nice video (shot by Christophe Honoré) featuring gorgeous Camelia. Not for a second you feel awkward that she's 19 and he's 37, this is totally believable. See an acoustic version HERE Alex Beaupain & Camelia Jordana - Avant la haîne

Les Bien-Aimés (The Beloved) is a new film written and directed by Christophe Honoré. A mouthwatering cast for Filles Sourires Fans: Ludivine Sagnier , Catherine Deneuve and her daughter Chiara Mastroianni . The story is set in the 1960s and 1990s in Paris, Prague and London. In an earlier film "Les chanson d'amour" (2007), Honoré already worked with Ludivine and Chiara. That resulted in a wonderful album, witten and composed by Alex Beaupain . This time they team up together again, and again the result is worth it. To put it short: what a lovely album! All [...]

Pour ne pas oublier cette habile langue française. christie laume -rouge rouge- boris vian -je bois (philippe katerine)- boris vian -faux frères (bird dogs) (mathieu boogaerts)- boris vian -je voudrais pas crever (edouard baer)- yves montand -c'est si bon- alex beaupain -je veux- ludivigne sagnier louis garrel clotilde hesme -je n'aime que toi- spleen -tu l'aimeras-

De 18 a 27 de Junho, Lisboa vai ser a capital da palavra. É o Festival Silêncio. O Festival Silêncio é um evento internacional sobre a palavra dita, nas suas mais variadas expressões; um evento sobre as novas tendências do género. Pelos palcos da capital da palavra vão passar nomes como Rodrigo Leão, José Luís Peixoto, Olivier Rolin, Adolfo Luxúria Canibal, Rogério Samora, JP Simões, Francisco José Viegas, Sam the Kid, Jorge Silva Melo, DJ Ride, Filipe Vargas, John Banzai, Mark-Uwe Kling, Maria João Seixas, Alex Beaupain e Wordsong, entre muitos outros. O Festival Silêncio! é [...]

. Since the first edition seemed to be quite popular, i decided to gather some more french songs together for your ears to enjoy. . Manu Chao - Sibérie Fleuve Amour Francis Cabrel - La Robe & l'Echelle Pauline Croze - Larmes Benjamin Biolay - Bien Avant Alex Beaupain - Comme La Pluie Bénabar - Quatre [...]

. Since the first edition seemed to be quite popular, i decided to gather some more french songs together for your ears to enjoy. . Manu Chao - Sibérie Fleuve Amour Francis Cabrel - La Robe & l'Echelle Pauline Croze - Larmes Benjamin Biolay - Bien Avant Alex Beaupain - Comme La Pluie Bénabar - Quatre [...]

Any chance I get to post about gorgeous Ludivine Sagnier , I take. While selecting tracks for the upcoming Gentils Garçons-compilation (the testosteron variety to Filles Fragiles ) I came across 33 Tours, an album by Alex Beaupain . Posted about him before , also in combination with Ludivine Sagnier. But I didn't know he also recorded this album, and asked Ludivine, Clothilde Hesme and Chiara Mastoianni to join him on Comme La Pluie. Husky heaven! In the upcoming weeks, I will post more male/female duets that I bumped into. See a [...]
My TONY interview with director Christophe Honoré and actor Louis Garrel can be found here . In the main piece they discuss mostly their collaboration on their new musical, Love Songs ( Les Chansons d'amour ); if you want want more, there's also a bonus Q&A in which Honoré expends on the film's shoot and on the one he just completed, an adaptation of Madame de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves. Two striking things about Love Songs : It's a French musical that does not remind the viewer of [...]
Il y a cette grande fille que je croise dans des open bar, elle est timide grande maigre et blonde, quand des gens rejoignent notre groupe je dis qu'elle est ma fille au pair alors elle rit, quand les gens partent elles me met des coups de seins dans la tête avec un air très distant puis arrête avec ses coups de seins et me parle de son travail de maisons de disques en crise avec des sourires, je lui dis qu'il faudrait qu'elle se mette au volley ball avec sympathie elle rit, au fond je ne la connais pas [...]

Yesterday I finally got the time to watch my Paris Je t'aime - dvd . It made me desperately wanna go to the City of Light, it made me cry (the Juliette Binoche-part) and it made me laugh (Steve Buscemi never fails). It made me realise that it's been a loooong time since I've been to the movies - one of the downsides of being a dad, I guess. It's also an explanation why I haven't seen Les Chansons d'Amour , a film by Christophe Honoré that was brought to my attention by Jorge (thanks again). He [...]